One Christmastime my Mom was totally frazzled. Work was going bad with a new boss she hated, Dad's job wasn't going well, she couldn't find the toys we wanted, the whole Christmas season was driving her crazy. So she just didn't have the energy to put together a whole turkey dinner (our standard Christmas meal) and instead made tacos. Old El Paso tacos, with the seasoning packet and the hard shells. Us kids loved tacos so the meal was actually a big hit. Every year after that, up to last year, we'd always ask if she was going to make tacos. Even when we went to Las Vegas as a family a few times we'd always suggest we do Mexican on Christmas.

So, in honor of losing my Mom this year, if I were making a Christmas dish I'd make tacos. Something fancier than Old El Paso, maybe a few different kinds, but tacos.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that this is, at best, a statistical aberration similar to the study I just saw claiming that people who eat oatmeal live longer. At worse, it's bullshit or even straight-up antisemitism.

"I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle

I think it's fascinating how this contrasts with Apple's keynotes, Apple is *so* good at marketing and presenting themselves it's like a whole different league from this MS keynote.

But the essence of Microsoft is totally there: Bit nerdy, stilted and sometimes awkward, but also both aggressive catching-up to/leapfrogging competitor offerings (e.g. free upgrades from Windows 7, cool) and a slew of ambitious technologies (some of it great, some at least positive, others I can't help think will fail in various interesting ways).

"Roses are red, violets are blue, rubbish is dumped and so are you.":: - FML